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Excerpt from The Relation of the Individual to the Republic I alluded, just now, to the sense of individual responsibility that presses upon us in all our conduct. The importance of the individual in the republic, and the mutual obligations which rest upon him and upon the State, form the essential ideas Of the discourse to which I now invite your attention. The words of the text were applied by the apostle Paul to the christian church but they are applicable to every Commonwealth, and should be written in letters of light upon all its institutions. They suggest the one ness and the common weal of the body politic, and yet maintain, for each of its members, a distinct and prominent individualism. They give a peculiar sig nificance to the grand truth, that the aggregate which forms the State is made up of units, each containing a moral force, each comprising the law of duty, the light of reason, and the power Of will. They declare the relation of all to each, of each to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.